Crime time stars

■ STORMZY has been rapped by a former cop for branding his past life of crime as “normal”.

As we told yesterday, ex-Met detective Stuart Gibbon blasted the star for saying violence, stabbings and even mugging the pizza delivery man was “bog standard”.

■ But plenty of celebs got up to no good before they finally found fame. NADINE LINGE looks at six others with shady pasts...

Leslie Grantham: Before being cast as EastEnders villain Dirty Den, Grantham served a 10-year prison stretch for a murder committed in West Germany.

He was convicted in 1966 after attempting to rob taxi driver Felix Reece, who was killed during the struggle by a gunshot wound to the head. Grantham, who died in June

2018, claimed he didn’t know the gun was loaded.

Gino D’Acampo:

In 1998, the TV chef, right, was an unknown 21-year-old waiter when he broke into singer Paul Young’s home, taking his £4,000 guitar collection and a platinum disc.

Gino was caught after his DNA matched tests on cigarette butts in the star’s bedroom and sentenced to two years in jail. Before he went on I’m A Celebrity in 2009, the Italian star contacted Young to apologise for his actions. Cardi B: The Grammy Award-winning rapper worked as a stripper and admitted robbing and drugging men.

She fessed up to her past after a 2016 video emerged where she talked about targeting men who willingly came with her to hotel rooms for sex. Cardi said there were “things in my past right or wrong that I felt I needed to do to make a living.”

Tim Allen: Star of sitcom Home Improvement and The Santa Clause, Allen was in prison over drug trafficking charges.

In 1978, he was arrested at a US airport for possession of more than 1lb of cocaine and faced a life sentence. But the actor cut a deal which saw him behind bars for just over two years.

Mark Wahlberg: While he’s now famous for his crazy exercise regime which sees him get up at 2.30am to work out, the actor was not always so clean-living.

Aged 14, he dropped out of school and joined a gang, getting in trouble for dealing drugs. In 1988, when he was 16, Wahlberg spent 45 days in prison for attacking a Vietnamese man. He was charged with attempted murder, and thought he had blinded the man in one eye.

Jay Z: Back in 1999, the rapper was involved in an altercation at a nightclub where he ended up stabbing a record executive in the stomach.

He admitted assault and got three years’ probation.